September 2006 - montgomery_boats - mailman.xmission.com

Auto tiller recomendations
by Norm Bundek 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Does anyone have any experience with a TP10 or ST1000 auto tiller on their M15 or 17? I take long trips single handed and need a break as well as control of the tiller while changing the jib or reefing. Norm M15 #172

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Looking for a Monty for sale
by Irv Kooris 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

A reminder to the group that I am looking for a M15 or M17 for sale in the Northeast. Let me know if you are selling or know someone selling. Email of line ikooris(a)comcast.net. Thanks Irv

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New Member
by Norm 10 Sep '06

10 Sep '06

Hi, I am a new member located in Ontario Canada. I will be in the market soon for a small pocket yacht such as an M15 or the new Com-Pac Legacy. I have previously owned a couple of 22 footers and a 27 footer, but now it's time to "go small". I would appreciate it very much if an M15 owner not too far from Ontario would be so kind as to help by way of a test sail. Thanks Norm --------------------------------- Share your photos with the people who matter at Yahoo! Canada Photos

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A beauty photo of their montgomery
by Nebwest2＠aol.com 10 Sep '06

10 Sep '06

Brian, Feel free to browse through my website www.havasumontogmerys.funtigo.com to see if there are any photos you would like to use. There are a few hundred photos there. Thge best sailing shots are in the "Dauntless sails with the Potters" page and there are also some good M17 shots in the M17 pages. Let me know if there is anything you'd like to use. Sean

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T-shirt Artwork
by David W. Wood 09 Sep '06

09 Sep '06

Aw shucks. Twern't nuthin! But thanks for the kind words, Bill and Sean. And yes, I got my t-shirts in the mail yesterday! They look great (if I do say so myself). But the credit here goes to Sean for getting the ball rolling, especially while he was knee-deep in the gargantuan task of refurbishing Dauntless. Tomorrow I'm heading out to go sailing on the lake with my t-shirt, hat, and mug, and you can bet I'll collar some innocent bystander to take a picture or two. We're stylin' now! David =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David W. Wood -=- dwood(a)dwoodworks.com 1981 M15 -=- Hull #163

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T-shirt Artwork
by Nebwest2＠aol.com 09 Sep '06

09 Sep '06

If you like your shirt, send a thank you to fellow Monty Owner David Wood. dwood(a)dwoodworks.com It's his artwork we are all wearing and he donated all his labor and talent for a couple of t-shirts!!! Beautiful job David, Thanks for all your help. Sean

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A beauty photo of their montgomery
by Brian Gilbert 09 Sep '06

09 Sep '06

Hi Everybody: Well, it looks like I'm not going to make it to the Keys this year with my boat, so I can't shoot the photograph that I wanted... my Monty 17 tied to a palm tree, with white sands, blue skies, and sapphire-colored water. Maybe some of you folks have. Do you have a good photo that you'd like to share, and that you wouldn't mind seeing in a book? Under sail or at anchor, doesn't matter. Hopefully in a location that would make anyone green with envy. It'll have to well-focused and good contrast. Prints are preferred, but high-resolution digital is fine too. It doesn't have to be a Montgomery, though it should be a trailerable sailboat. This is for my next book on trailer-sailing, which will kind of be along the same subject matter of Robert Burgess' handbook, but an entirely new book. Won't be published for about a year and a half. You'll get full photo credits, of course, but you'll need to be the copyright owner. Email me directly at hammerguy(a)mindspring.com if this is something you'd like to be a part of, and thanks! BG -- Brian Gilbert Marine Media Author, Fix It and Sail (423)876-1016 3404 Hartford Drive Chattanooga, TN 37415 www.sailingsmall.com

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Re: M_Boats: Hello!
by chbenneck＠juno.com 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

Hi Donglai, Comments: Raising the mast on an M15 is an easy one-man job, once you have done it the first, second and third times... Then it's just becomes routine job. (I'm talking as an 85 year old that did it by myself till last year when I sold my M15 to a new young crew) The problems you encounter are: shrouds and topping life tangling with the mast support or hang up on the cleats as you raise the mast. Then you find it will come up half way and no further. Back to square one, and clear the shrouds and lines so that they run clear. another problem is that the heel of the mast might not get into the mast step so that you can insert the bolt. The angle of the mast between mast support and the mast step is wrong. The solution to this problem is either a longer aft mast support, which raises the aft end of the mast, or slide the companionway hatch closed so that the mast is not blocked by the companionway hatch forward edge so that the mast can be put into the mast step. I don't know if you have a tensioning device on the forestay. When I got my M15 it just had a fitting on the forestay and I was supposed to pull on it till I could insert the clevis pin in the fitting and the bow fitting to lock things in place. A very unsatisfactory state of affairs. One of those things that requires three hands and a new vocabulary of cuss words, as the clevis pin falls overboard and hits the ground (or water as the case may be) Another M15 owner in Alaska told me to get WEST Marine item No. 246175 "Quick Release Shroud Lever" price about $20 and a "Ball-Lok Quick-Release Pin" - but it comes in three different lengths and in different diameters, so it will have to be selected to match the Quick Release Shroud Lever hole diameter and width configuration. I have used the Quick Release Shroud Lever and the Ball-Lok Pin as long as I have owned the boat, and it makes life easy to step the mast; secure it; and add some tension to the forestay. ========== Electricity: In the last year I owned my M15 I installed a small electrical distribution panel just inside the companionway on the starboard side, and put a motorcycle battery in a small battery container in the aft end of the storage area under the starboard berth. That made running the power line to the distribution panel easy. My reason for doing this was to power my GPS, which I like to use as a speedometer while sailing. Normally the GPS runs on 4 AA batteries, but if you keep it running by the hour, you will find that you become an unwilling part owner of a battery company. The motorcycle battery was small enough, and light enough that I could easily remove it to take it home after a weekend of sailing and recharge the battery. It also allowed me to run a SONY CD player and two small speakers for some Vivaldi or Mozart accompaniment while sailing. My setup might have sufficed for the new LED running lights, but I wasn't doing any night time sailing anymore. So that was of no concern to me. ========== Compass: I bought a small Danforth compass and mounted it on a teak board that fit against the cabin bulkhead lying on the sail locker surface. That way, I had a compass on either tack that was easily readable by the helmsman. The cockpit cushion kept it in place. It might not have been calibrated and adjusted to 1 degree accuracy, but then I never could hold a course that accurately either.... Mounting one in the cabin bulkhead is a mixed blessing as far as I'm concerned. Half the time it is on the "wrong" side of the boat for easy reading - unless you install two. A GPS makes a much easier to read instrument, and tells you if you are on course to your next way point as well. ========== Keep the questions coming. We'll try and give you answers. Connie ex M15 # 400

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Re: M_Boats: Shroud for M15
by Wcpritchett＠aol.com 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

Nicopress makes one of the small crimp tools to match their sleeves. There is also a simple gauge available to measure wire to make sure their sleeves match properly. They have to match or you don't get the right crimp. These little tools have been out since I can remember in the 1960s and I've seen many sailboats rigged using them. I rigged several this way myself. In all these years this is the first time I've heard of one giving problems. I personally wouldn't hesitate to use these again.

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Hello!
by Donglai Gong 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

Hi all, I just purchased a M15. Want to say hello to everyone here. Since this is my first M-boat (and my first boat!) I'm sure that I'll have many questions and will need to seek your expertise on all things M-boats. Hope to see y'all on the water! Cheers, Donglai

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